Brand Mentions Monitor: Web Mentions and Sentiment

Find web pages that mention your brand, with sentiment, emotions and site authority for each mention. The Actor searches news sites, blogs, forums, online shops and organization websites. You get one row per mention, plus a free summary with a sentiment breakdown, top domains and a monthly trend. Turn on Only new mentions and schedule it to get just the new mentions each day or week. You don't need an API key or login.

What it covers: the open web, news sites, blogs, forums and message boards, online shops, review and product pages, and organization websites. It does not cover Instagram, TikTok, X (Twitter), Facebook or other social networks. For those, use a platform specific scraper next to this Actor.

One example row from a real run, shortened:

{
  "id": "36E4sBBW_vzvpOZ3WQ9e",
  "rowType": "mention",
  "keyword": "Logitech",
  "mentionId": "P5YX9tlWXIWSTyPx",
  "url": "https://www.vikingdirekt.ch/de/logitech-kabellose-ergonomische-maus-beidhandig-m185-blau-p-7160985",
  "domain": "www.vikingdirekt.ch",
  "mainDomain": "vikingdirekt.ch",
  "title": "Logitech M185 Maus Kabellos Blau, Schwarz Geeignet Für Linkshänder",
  "sectionTitle": null,
  "previousSectionTitle": "Beschreibung",
  "snippet": "Keine Verzögerungen oder Ausfälle. Der winzige kabellose Empfänger garantiert Ihnen eine zuverlässige Verbindung. Logitech",
  "highlightedText": null,
  "author": null,
  "datePublished": null,
  "dateBest": "2026-08-26T09:50:52.000Z",
  "discoveredAt": "2026-08-26T09:50:52.000Z",
  "groupDate": "2023-02-24T09:03:53.000Z",
  "language": "de",
  "country": "CH",
  "sentiment": "negative",
  "positiveScore": 0.0109,
  "negativeScore": 0.9711,
  "neutralScore": 0.018,
  "emotionAnger": 0.579,
  "emotionHappiness": 0.073,
  "emotionLove": 0.057,
  "emotionSadness": 0.1667,
  "emotionShare": 0.0606,
  "emotionFun": 0.0638,
  "pageType": "ecommerce",
  "pageTypes": [
    "ecommerce"
  ],
  "pageCategories": [
    "Arts & Entertainment",
    "Computers & Consumer Electronics",
    "Consumer Electronics",
  …
}

For each keyword you also get one summary row (rowType: "summary"), which is also saved as SUMMARY in the key value store: mentionsDelivered, totalMatchingMentions (all matches in the index), sentimentCounts, positiveShare / negativeShare / neutralShare, netSentiment (−1 to 1), averageScores, averageEmotions, topDomains, uniqueDomains, countries, languages, pageTypes, trendByMonth and mentionsWithoutDate. With the optional web wide statistics, it also includes webWide.

You pay per event, through your Apify account. Main price: $2.40 per 1,000 mentions on the Apify Free plan and $0.20 on Gold, plus $0.033 per mentions search. Every event and plan:

Every run is one HTTP request to the Apify API with your Apify token; the input below is the actor's own example. The synchronous endpoint returns the rows in the response for runs up to 300 seconds; for longer runs start a run and fetch its dataset.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/cheapapi~brand-mentions-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"keywords":["Logitech"],"maxMentions":100}'

With the JavaScript client:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('cheapapi/brand-mentions-monitor').call({
  "keywords": [
    "Logitech"
  ],
  "maxMentions": 100
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

Typical run: 1,000 results for one brand. Prices are for the whole run.

Prices from public Apify Store listings, checked September 2026 (per result price plus any start fee; the listings of these six Actors do not show platform usage charged to the user). For this Actor, Apify platform usage is billed separately by Apify on top of the price shown (at the default 256 MB a small run typically uses about $0.001 to $0.005, so a 1,000-mention run stays around $0.23 to $0.24 on Gold). On Apify, Platinum and Diamond plans pay this Actor's Gold price. Features are taken from each listing's description.

Honest notes: several news only Google News scrapers cost less than this Actor on the Free and Bronze plans (the ~100-user Actor $1.01 vs $2.43 and $0.67 vs $2.03; the ~480-user one $2.01 vs $2.43 and $1.68 vs $2.03; the ~550-user one $2.31 vs $2.43 and $2.01 vs $2.03). Some are also cheaper on Silver (the ~100-user Actor $0.57 and the ~480-user one $1.34 vs our $1.53) and on Diamond (the ~100-user Actor $0.14 vs our $0.23). This Actor is the cheapest option in the table on Gold and Platinum, even after adding a few tenths of a cent of platform usage, and against the two most used Google News scrapers and the social media sentiment Actor it is cheaper on every plan. It is also the only option in the table that covers the wider web (blogs, forums, shops, organization sites) with sentiment and emotion scores for every mention. Pick a Google News Actor if news headlines are all you need. Here you also get blogs, forums, shops and organization sites, a sentiment and emotion score for every mention, domain and page rank, spam score, a free summary, and an "Only new mentions" mode where repeats are never charged as mentions. Brand monitoring SaaS subscriptions add social networks, dashboards and built in alerts, but charge a monthly fee whether or not there are new mentions.

• Brand monitoring and PR: get a daily feed of new articles, blog posts and forum threads that mention your brand.
• Crisis detection: filter by negative sentiment or anger, and alert your team through a webhook.
• Competitor tracking: monitor competitor brands and compare share of voice, sentiment and top domains.
• Link building and outreach: find sites that mention you without linking to you. Filter by domain rank and spam score.
• Market research: see which countries, languages and page types talk about a product, and how that changes over the months.
• Influencer and media lists: find the domains that write about a topic most often.

• Social network posts (Instagram, TikTok, X, Facebook): our index covers the open web.
• YouTube videos and comments: use YouTube Search Scraper to find videos about your brand and YouTube Comments Scraper for their comments.
• Brand mentions in AI answers (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews): use AI Search Visibility Tracker.
• Links to your site without a text mention, or tracking a URL: mentions are found by text. For pages that link to a URL or domain, use Backlink Checker.
• Google search rankings for your brand: use Google SERP Scraper.
• Pages behind a login, full page text and author contact details: you get the text block around the mention, not the whole page, and no personal contact data.

• Social networks (Instagram, TikTok, X, Facebook and similar) are not covered.
• Coverage depends on our web index. Very new pages, pages behind a login and pages that block crawlers may be missing.
• Many pages have no publication date. When you filter by publication date, those pages are left out. Use "Date range applies to: discovery date" if you want to include them.
• Sentiment is computed per text block by a model. It can misread sarcasm, mixed opinions or text that is not about your brand.
• A search returns at most 1,000 mentions. Larger runs page through the results, and each page is one search event. The limit is 20,000 mentions per keyword per run.
• Up to 8 filter conditions can be combined per run.
• In "Only new mentions" mode, if a run stops at "Max mentions" or at your cost limit, the next run can still pick up the remaining mentions. When many new mentions arrive continuously, raise "Max mentions" so no mentions are skipped.